Chapter Summaries

Fang Xiu examined extraordinary knowledge and three mythical items from the Giant Plane, considering how they might advance cultivation and open new paths. Meanwhile, Jonah Vogel carried a possibly divine faith artifact toward his teacher, John Fogel, in London.

• Fang Xiu organized books about the Giant Plane and learned that only seven of its true gods still answered their believers.
• Fang Xiu studied giant blood, a lich heart, and a youth tree seed, and considered using them to accelerate divine cultivation and develop a path for Ghost Dao practitioners.
• Fang Xiu learned that the youth tree was one of the Lady of the Lake’s three holy artifacts and decided to try planting its seed.
• Jonah Vogel passed through the Antarctic Gate of Gods and Devils carrying an indestructible sword that seemed to recover power by drawing on emotions and Faith Power.
• Jonah Vogel suspected the sword was a faith divine artifact and hurried from the Gate of Gods and Devils to London to consult his teacher, John Fogel.

Jonah Vogel brought John Vogel an immortal sword that absorbed Faith Power, and John identified it as an Incense Divine Artifact left by an Ancient Celestial God. John chose to share its use through an alliance, and White Harbor was restructured around fifteen Lifetime Councilors as plans for the Energy Tower advanced.

• Jonah told John that a sword he had found in the Undying Kingdom Peninsula Ruins was immortal and seemed to absorb Faith Power.
• John confirmed the sword was an Incense Divine Artifact and decided to pursue cooperation rather than conceal it.
• John had Jonah invite Astrologer Darryl, Fengdu Daoist, Divine Lord Jia Yi, Druid Malin, Tai Liang, and others to discuss the artifact.
• Fang Xiu received John's invitation and approved of his decision to pursue joint development.
• After secret talks in London, Astrologer Darryl proposed reorganizing White Harbor's council, and John and Divine Lord Jia Yi revived the Energy Tower plan.
• White Harbor abolished its old council system and established fifteen Lifetime Councilors, who received authority over the city and shared control of the planned Energy Tower.

White Harbor City completed its Energy Tower and activated the Divine Domain, giving its Lifetime Councilors control over the city while suppressing other Supernatural Beings. Fang Xiu returned home and prepared to take his companions to the Mountain Sea World, where Black Fiend would attempt to reach Tier Four.

• White Harbor City drew crowds as the completed Energy Tower and its advertisements marked the city's rapid growth.
• Fang Xiu and the other Lifetime Councilors discussed activating the Divine Domain and agreed to share authority over the Energy Tower through soul imprints.
• The Divine Domain spread across White Harbor, suppressing visitors' powers and empowering the Lifetime Councilors to monitor and defend the city.
• The Councilors celebrated the new mage tower, and Fang Xiu returned home to find Black Fiend and Wind Crow Roster playing a motion-sensing game.
• Fang Xiu gathered supernatural items and books, told Black Fiend to prepare for a Tier Four breakthrough in the Heavenly Realm's Ascension Pool, and entered the Mountain Sea World with his companions.

In the Netherworld, a silver-haired Taoist freed Qing Yun from his chains and sent him into the Blood Sea to begin another life. Meanwhile, Monk Hong Yuan’s discovery of an ancient Buddhist temple and Bodhi Tree led to the founding of Thunder Sound Temple, drawing cultivators to the Western Continent in search of opportunity.

• A silver-haired Taoist visited Qing Yun beneath the Bridge of Helplessness and reminded him that the past had passed.
• Qing Yun recognized the Taoist, knelt before him, and recovered a fragment of his former self.
• The Taoist dissolved Qing Yun’s chains and rock, sending him down the Three Paths River toward the Blood Sea to begin a new life.
• Monk Hong Yuan discovered an ancient Buddhist temple, its scriptures and treasures, and the Bodhi Tree seed beneath the Western Continent’s desert.
• Monk Hong Yuan planted the Bodhi Tree, subdued a Sand Serpent variant, and founded Thunder Sound Temple as the surrounding earth revived.
• News of the temple’s Buddhist inheritance drew cultivators across the dangerous sea to seek opportunities in the Western Continent.

Ma Ji and Zhong Wen discovered that the Western Continent's lifelessness came from a Netherworld Blood Sea beneath it, then fled when its monstrous inhabitants surged toward the surface. Meanwhile, Fang Xiu crossed beyond the Thirty-Six Layers of Gale Wind and headed toward a star in the region between the Celestial Realm and the Mountain Sea World.

• Ma Ji realized the Western Continent resembled the ruins of the Undying Kingdom and suspected it was an ancient battlefield where the earth veins had been severed.
• Ma Ji and Zhong Wen investigated the Western Continent's earth veins and found a Blood River emerging from a cavern beneath a mountain.
• Ma Ji sent a Silver Corpse into the cavern, triggering the Blood River to erupt into a Blood Sea filled with fiendish spirits and monsters.
• A woman appeared to control the Blood Sea, and Ma Ji fled with Zhong Wen, abandoning more than a dozen Silver Corpses.
• Cultivators learned that the Netherworld Blood Sea beneath the Western Continent had severed its earth veins and that a female evil entity had tried to break through to the surface.
• Fang Xiu crossed beyond the Thirty-Six Layers of Gale Wind and walked through the void toward a star between the Celestial Realm and the Mountain Sea World.

Fang Xiu completed the Venus Star Palace and brought its Star Lord into being, causing Venus to appear in the daytime and affect the Mountain Sea World. In Western Continent, Hong Yuan investigated the Netherworld Blood Sea and concluded that it threatened the future of the Buddhist land.

• Fang Xiu watched the Long Bo Country People shape the Venus Star Palace and prepared the Star Lord’s birth as the grotto-heaven finished evolving.
• Fang Xiu opened a passage to reincarnation, and a golden true spirit entered the star-power vortex to become the fourth-tier Star Lord.
• The Feather People welcomed their new master as Venus shone in daylight, drawing the attention of cultivators and officials across the Mountain Sea World.
• Cultivators in Western Continent found Buddhist ruins and scriptures, while Hong Yuan traveled there to investigate the surging Blood River.
• Hong Yuan determined that the Netherworld Blood Sea lay beneath Western Continent and warned that it could prevent the Buddhist land from prospering.

Black Fiend successfully used the Gods and Devils Fetus to forge a powerful Nine Lives Cat Demon body, and Fang Xiu prepared to advance with the Jun Heaven Pot. The Lord of Nether Capital returned from the immortal realm, while Gai Cang saw a vast tower ship arrive as he prepared to travel overseas.

• Black Fiend endured days of torment in the Ascension Pool and devoured the Gods and Devils Fetus, creating a new body with nine tails and divine and demonic power.
• Black Fiend took Fang Xiu’s daoist robe, returned his Jun Heaven Pot, and left Fang Xiu ready to attempt his own fifth-rank breakthrough.
• The Lord of Nether Capital returned to Nether Capital in a Phoenix Carriage, and the Demon Folk, officials, and visitors gathered to welcome him.
• Gai Cang prepared to cross the sea toward Nether Capital Immortal Island, hoping to find clues about breaking through the fourth rank.
• A white mountain-like tower ship emerged from the sea of clouds before Gai Cang.

Gai Cang traveled across the South Sea and Nether Sea to Nether Capital Immortal Island, where he discovered that the legendary Fengdu Daoist was Sage Feng of Xun Capital Academy. He followed reports of Fengdu’s whereabouts to the western reefs and saw him sitting alone as the Silver Moon descended into the Nether Sea.

• Gai Cang crossed the South Sea Abyss and the Ends of the Earth before reaching Nether Capital Immortal Island.
• Gai Cang tried to present a gift to the Lord of Nether Capital but was refused entry to the Nether Palace.
• Gai Cang bought a Demon Banquet Painting and recognized a figure in it as Sage Feng, whom the shopkeeper identified as the Fengdu Daoist.
• Gai Cang asked the Maritime Trade Office about Fengdu and learned that he had been staying among the dangerous western reefs.
• Gai Cang reached the reefs and saw a figure sitting motionless as the Silver Moon sank into the Nether Sea.

Gai Cang traveled with Sage Feng to the Ruin of Moonfall, where they witnessed a star fall and discovered a blessed-land immortal island. Sage Feng left Gai Cang the island and its Earth Immortal legacy, giving him a chance to advance toward immortality.

• Gai Cang watched Sage Feng capture the giant Kun in a Blue and White Wine Pot and carry him into the world inside it.
• Sage Feng explained the Kun’s long life and its impending death as it pursued the sun and moon through the pot’s world.
• Gai Cang and Sage Feng rode the Kun across the Nether Sea, witnessed a star fall into the Ruin of Moonfall, and reached a floating immortal island.
• Sage Feng told Gai Cang that the island held an Earth Immortal legacy that could help him reach the fifth rank and potentially become an Earth Immortal.
• Gai Cang thanked Sage Feng, who departed in the Blue and White Wine Pot.

Gai Cang revived the ancient spirit root Shatang, turned the blessed immortal island into his foundation, and broke through to the fifth rank when it returned to the Mountain Sea World. Renaming it Nanhua Island, he became Monarch Nanhua and shared his Earth Immortal inheritance, leaving the island a renowned gathering place for cultivators and Rogue Cultivators.

• Gai Cang discovered the dead Shatang spirit root and the incomplete Mountain River Spirit Root Manual, which described an immortal path based on spirit roots, earth veins, and blessed lands.
• Gai Cang revived Shatang, made it his natal treasure, and restored the island’s earth veins and Water Veins, gradually bringing the island back to life.
• Gai Cang guided the blessed immortal island out of the Nether Sea and into the Mountain Sea World, where he broke through to the fifth rank.
• Gai Cang named the island Nanhua Island, took the title Monarch Nanhua, and became the first person in the world to reach the fifth rank.
• Monarch Nanhua exchanged Daoist methods with visiting cultivators and helped them develop paths based on his Earth Immortal inheritance.
• Cultivators from across the world gathered on Nanhua Island, which became a sacred land for Rogue Cultivators overseas.

Fang Xiu returned to Nether Capital and found that Black Fiend had been using her Clone Divine Power to create many lifelike selves. After warning her that the ability might reach into the true spirit, he left for the Mountain Sea World and tasked her with developing a Demon Path inheritance.

• Fang Xiu entered the Nether Palace in the form of the Blue and White Wine Pot, while the Eight-Faced Azure Lamps feared his return.
• Fang Xiu discovered that the Female Lord in the sleeping palace was a clone and searched the palace for Black Fiend's true body.
• Fang Xiu found Black Fiend in the Hot Spring Garden, dispelled her clones, and warned her that her Clone Divine Power might affect the true spirit.
• Fang Xiu told Black Fiend that his Tier-5 realm had stabilized but that refining the Grotto-Heaven Magic Treasure would take time.
• Fang Xiu instructed Black Fiend to organize a Demon Path cultivation inheritance and warned her not to waste her lifespan before departing for the Mountain Sea World.

Fang Xiu visited Nanhua Immortal Island in disguise, observed Monarch Nanhua Gai Cang teaching about spiritual veins, and then continued across the South Sea on a captured immortal crane. After the Mermen Country learned that Fengdu Daoist had passed through its territory, its Female Lord pursued him.

• Fang Xiu entered Nanhua Immortal Island in disguise and listened as Monarch Nanhua Gai Cang taught cultivators about spiritual veins and Earth Cultivation.
• Fang Xiu left the island after judging that Gai Cang was sincerely building a sanctuary for Rogue Cultivators, while Gai Cang briefly sensed his presence.
• Fang Xiu captured a third-rank peak immortal crane and rode it across the South Sea toward the Mermen Country.
• The Mermen Country's Dragon Gauze Guards reported Fang Xiu's passage to the Female Lord.
• The Female Lord transformed into light and chased after Fang Xiu.

Fang Xiu visited Yu Shang at Dragon Gauze Palace, where she sought his advice about Mermen Country’s centuries-long conflict with East Sea Dragon Palace. He explained that the Four Seas’ future would be decided by the gods appointed to govern them, then vanished, leaving Yu Shang to consider his warning.

• Fang Xiu met Yu Shang above the South Sea and accepted her invitation to Dragon Gauze Palace.
• Yu Shang hosted Fang Xiu at an extravagant banquet and described East Sea Dragon Palace’s recent invasion and the long conflict between their realms.
• Yu Shang asked Fang Xiu where Mermen Country’s path forward lay, and he explained that raw strength alone would not settle the struggle.
• Fang Xiu showed Yu Shang visions of the Eastern Continent’s divine order and said the Four Seas would need gods recognized by heaven and earth, the Netherworld Bureau, and the earth’s government.
• Yu Shang thanked Fang Xiu, but he vanished with the food and wine, leaving her sitting in his place.

The Mermen Country used its sea markets to expand its wealth and influence over the South Sea, prompting the East Sea Dragon Palace to reclaim its scattered Flood Dragon descendants. At Ancient Watchtower City, Zhong Wen accidentally drew a half-corpse of a Heavenly Soldier from the immortal palace ruins, causing chaos before an old Taoist captured him.

• The Netherworld emperor created four underworld offices over the dark seas, while the Mermen Country expanded its trade and influence across the South Sea.
• Ao Hong ordered the East Sea Dragon Palace to contact its long-exiled Dragon Sons and their descendants, risking conflict with the Great Pan Dynasty.
• Fang Xiu planted the Youth Tree sapling deep inside the immortal palace ruins and spotted Zhong Wen controlling a corpse puppet into the restricted area.
• Zhong Wen's corpse puppet carried away half a Heavenly Soldier's corpse, awakening the surrounding corpses and afflicting Zhong Wen with a divine-baleful curse.
• The half-corpse pursued Zhong Wen through Ancient Watchtower City, overwhelming the cultivators who tried to stop it.
• A Bronze Coffin captured the half-corpse, and an old Taoist seized Zhong Wen and disappeared.

Fengdu Daoist arrived at Jia Yi’s birthday gathering on Spirit Pivot Mountain, where Jia Yi presented her fifth-rank cultivation path and the assembled cultivators discussed ways to reach the realm. Fengdu revealed that he had already entered the fifth rank and introduced his alternative path of the Ghost Immortal, which he claimed could offer anyone with fourth-rank cultivation a chance at immortality.

• Cultivators from across Eastern Continent gathered on Spirit Pivot Mountain to celebrate Jia Yi’s birthday, and Lu Hun described the ancient figures associated with Fengdu Daoist.
• Fang Xiu arrived on a white crane, which she had helped advance to the fourth rank, and exchanged familiar remarks with Jia Yi.
• Jia Yi explained how her Five Elements Earth Vein Refining Spirit Art used the power of Heaven and Earth as its reliance, then other cultivators shared their proposed paths to the fifth rank.
• Jia Yi asked Fengdu whether he had already reached the fifth rank, and Fengdu explained that he had anchored his Dharma form to a supreme treasure.
• Fengdu announced the path of the Ghost Immortal, claiming that anyone with fourth-rank cultivation could use it to pursue immortality, shocking the assembled cultivators.

Fengdu Daoist explained the Ghost Immortal method, a nine-lifetime path to eternal life that preserved cultivation and memories but offered little power or room to advance. After the immortal banquet, Fang Xiu gave White Crane Disciple the method and Nine Netherworld True Fire, and White Crane settled by the Eastern Sea to cultivate and eventually found a sect.

• Fengdu Daoist described how the Ghost Immortal True Spirit Incantation carried cultivation through nine reincarnations to form an Undying Body.
• The cultivators questioned the method’s risks and limitations, and many memorized it despite deciding it was an inferior Immortal Dao Position.
• The Spirit Pivot Mountain immortal banquet ended, and news of Fengdu Daoist’s Ghost Immortal method spread across the world.
• Fengdu Daoist and Spirit Pivot Mountain Patriarch Jia Yi entered secluded cultivation while the mountain gate was sealed.
• Fang Xiu gave White Crane Disciple a jade slip of the Ghost Immortal True Spirit Incantation and a flower of Nine Netherworld True Fire, then departed after reciting its secret core verse.
• White Crane Disciple built a hut by the Eastern Sea, cultivated the method, and later founded a sect to pass it down.

Fang Xiu witnessed the Sun God descend into the Mountain Sea World and met the Dragon King Futu, his former horse, in Yangjing. After learning Futu feared the East Sea Dragon Palace’s order, Fang Xiu abandoned his hopes of making him Lord of the Four Seas and returned to the present world.

• The silver-haired Taoist connected the descending star to the World Tree, causing the Sun God’s laws to merge into the Mountain Sea World and transform its sun.
• Fang Xiu recognized that the King of Giants, also known as the Sun God, was descending from the Giant Plane.
• Futu appeared before Fang Xiu in Yangjing and bowed, explaining that he had come after hearing Fang Xiu had manifested again.
• Fang Xiu rebuked Futu for fearing Ao Hong and warned that he might lose his position as Dragon King of Li River.
• Futu leaped into the river and left, while Fang Xiu gave up on him as a candidate for Lord of the Four Seas and returned to the present world.

Corpse Driving Daoist Ma Ji returned from the Mountain Sea World after reaching the fourth tier and brought Hua a Heavenly Court Secret Technique he had learned from a Heavenly Soldier corpse. He negotiated a deal with Kong Huai, while Zhou Yang planned to use the technique to train armies and gain an advantage in the next struggle for the Eastern Continent.

• Corpse Driving Daoist Ma Ji emerged at the Gate of Gods and Demons with coffins and revealed his fourth-tier power.
• Ma Ji explained that he had derived a Heavenly Court Secret Technique from a Heavenly Soldier corpse, one that could unite the strength of many cultivators.
• Ma Ji and Young Daoist Zhong Wen entered Hua's base, where Ma Ji met Kong Huai and described the technique.
• Kong Huai rejected Ma Ji's demand for a Lifetime Councilor seat but agreed to his other terms after consulting his superiors.
• Director Zhou Yang recognized the technique's potential for training armies in the Mountain Sea World and ordered Kong Huai to secure it.
• Ma Ji's coffins were loaded onto a helicopter, and the deal for the secret technique was concluded.

White Harbor’s council rejected a proposal to grant extraordinary people special privileges and approved plans to shift more resources toward developing Earth and expand the city. The chapter ended with Fang Xiu looking out over ordinary Wei Port and reflecting on how exceptional White Harbor was.

• White Harbor’s population and tourism grew as its Outer City construction began and the Inner City became increasingly crowded and expensive.
• Lu Wu, Astrologer Darryl, and Fang Xiu opposed the Extraordinary Person Privilege Act, and the council rejected it unanimously.
• Astrologer Darryl proposed redirecting resources from the Gods and Demons World toward building an extraordinary world on Earth, including plans to make White Harbor mobile and eventually send it into space.
• The council debated Darryl’s proposal and passed it, while Alchemist John Vogel proposed dividing the Inner City into seven climate-controlled levels to expand its capacity sevenfold.
• After the meeting, Fang Xiu changed the view outside his tower from White Harbor to Wei Port and looked out over the ordinary city.

At Spirit Pivot Mountain, Zhang Shan asked Fengdu Daoist to help restore Qingyang Wanderer through the Ghost Immortal path, and Fengdu Daoist explained what would be needed to forge a Ghost Immortal Body from Qingyang’s remains. Zhang Ping received the news and welcomed the chance to continue his master’s path to immortality, whatever the cost.

• At Jia Yi’s birthday banquet, Zhang Shan listened intently as Fengdu Daoist described the Ghost Immortal path and his Ghost Immortal True Spirit Incantation.
• After the banquet, Zhang Shan asked Fengdu Daoist to help Tai Shou Mountain and revealed that Qingyang Wanderer’s remains, remnant soul, cultivation, and White Jade Cauldron had been preserved.
• Zhang Shan proposed using Qingyang Wanderer’s remains to create a Ghost Immortal Body that could find his reincarnated master and bring him back to Tai Shou Mountain.
• Fengdu Daoist said the plan required a fourth-rank great power’s origin, the Nine Netherworld True Fire, and the Ghost Immortal True Spirit Incantation to forge the body.
• At the Zhang Clan’s old residence, Zhang Ping received Zhang Shan’s message and wept with joy at the prospect of continuing Qingyang Wanderer’s path to immortality.